Sammelband of five pamphlets on Naval Gunnery gathered by Rear Admiral A.A. Harwood,; (great grandson of Benjamin Franklin), with his name label on pastedown and signature on individual pamphlets at various ranks. A. A. Harwood's career in the Navy started with his appointment as Midshipman on the gun-brig Saranac in 1818. He retired with the rank of Rear Admiral in 1874.
1. THE NAVAL FORCES OF FRANCE COMPARED TO THOSE OF ENGLAND. by his Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville, Admiral of the Fleet. Literally translated from the French. London: W.E. Painter, 342, Strand, Printer. 8vo. 32pp. Signature of Lieut. Harwood U.S.N., stamp and blindstamp of Naval Bureau of Ordnance Library on titlepage.; 2. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS OF THE U.S. NAVY ON HUNTER'S AND LOPER'S PROPELLERS. Charles H. Haswell et al. NP: np, (1846). 8vo. 7pp.; 3. Stockton, Captain R. F. a paper on some of the results of a series of experiments relative to different parts of gunnery. Philadelphia: William S. Young, Printer, back of No. 50 North Sixth St., 1848. 8vo. 16pp.; 4. EXPERIMENTS UPON SEVERAL OBJECTS RELATING TO NAVAL GUNNERY, MADE ON BOARD THE FRIGATE DRYADE: IN 1835. translated by an officer in the U.S. Navy. Washington: C. Alexander, Printer, Seventeenth Street, 1847. 8vo. 23pp., 2 folding plates; 5. INSTRUCTION SUR LE CANNONAGE A BORD, A L'USAGE DES MAITRES ET SECONDS MAITRES CANONNIERS DES ÈCOLES D'ARTILLERIE NAVALE, ....... Par le Lieutenant-Colonel Préaux. Paris: Leneveu, Libraire Pour L'Art Militaire et La Marine, Rue des Grands- Augustins, 18, 1839. 2nd edition. 8vo. Half-title, 128pp., (4), 5 folding plates. Bound in three-quarter vellum and marbled boards. All pamphlets have Harwood's signature. Item #58419
1. OCLC-43311777: New York Public Lib., U.S. Navy Dept. Libr., Naval Hist Ctr, National Libr. Of Australia; OCLC- 319944889: British Libr Reference Collections, National Libr of Scotland. One assigns 1846, the other 1844 as publication date, but none have an actual printed date. 2. OCLC- none. of this offprint from Journal of the Franklin Institute. 3. OCLC- 21347500 13 listings. 4. OCLC- 5063721. Catalogued as folding plate and table, we clearly have two folding plates. New York Public Lib, U.S.Navy Dept Libr, Naval Hist Ctr, U.S. Naval Acad, Virginia Mil Inst. 5. None of the following entries mention our (4)p. which include an errata, OCLC- 67975472 Haagse Defensiebibliotheek, Het Legermuseum, Delft; OCLC- 47655334 U.S. Navy Dept. Libr., Naval Hist Ctr; OCLC- 464454989. Danish Union Cat & Danish National Bibl; OCLC- 458139740. Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
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